As part of the HTTP/1.1 testing, here are some useful test tools. They are
all based on libwww, which is a C based Web library available from
http://www.w3.org/Library/
Get the latest 5.1l distribution file from this address using HTTP - the
FTP area hasn't been updated yet. Then try out these testing tools that
make use of the features in libwww:
- The Mini Robot makes heavy use of persistent connections and pipelining
using GET and HEAD method calls. It is _very_ fast! More information is
available at
http://www.w3.org/Robot/
- The command line tool can do HTTP/1.1 PUT, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS, and
TRACE. It can handle special situations like redirections on a PUT, etc.
More information is available at
http://www.w3.org/ComLine/
- The Line Mode browser uses an HTTP/1.1 persistent cache to do 1/1 cache
validation and range requests to obtain partially cached entries. More
information is available at
http://www.w3.org/LineMode/
All the tools (as well as libwww) are available in source code and work on
both Windows NT and Unix.
Have fun,
Henrik
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk